scholarly journals The French official statistics strategy: Combining signaling data from various mobile network operators for documenting COVID-19 crisis effects on population movements and economic outlook

Data & Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elise Coudin ◽  
Mathilde Poulhes ◽  
Milena Suarez Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Network ◽  
Mobile Phone Data ◽  
Official Statistics ◽  
Privacy Regulation ◽  
Population Movements ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
General Data ◽  
Combine Information ◽  
Mobile Network Operators

Abstract During the COVID-19 crisis, the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) used aggregated and anonymous counting indicators based on network signaling data of three of the four mobile network operators (MNOs) in France to measure the distribution of population over the territory during and after the lockdown and to enrich the toolbox of high-frequency economic indicators used to follow the economic situation. INSEE’s strategy was to combine information coming from different MNOs together with the national population estimates it usually produces in order to get more reliable statistics and to measure uncertainty. This paper relates and situates this initiative within the long-term methodological collaborations between INSEE and different MNOs, and INSEE, Eurostat, and some other European national statistical institutes (NSIs). These collaborations aim at constructing experimental official statistics on the population present in a given place and at a given time, from mobile phone data (MPD). The COVID-19 initiative has confirmed that more methodological investments are needed to increase relevance of and trust in these data. We suggest this methodological work should be done in close collaboration between NSIs, MNOs, and research, to construct the most reliable statistical processes. This work requires exploiting raw data, so the research and statistical exemptions present in the general data protection regulation (GDPR) should be introduced as well in the new e-privacy regulation. We also raise the challenges of articulating commercial and public interest rationales and articulating transparency and commercial secrets requirements. Finally, it elaborates on the role NSIs can play in the MPD valorization ecosystem.

Consumer Consent and Firm Targeting After GDPR: The Case of a Large Telecom Provider

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Godinho de Matos ◽  
Idris Adjerid
Keyword(s):  
Firm Behavior ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Privacy Regulation ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
Consumer Privacy ◽  
General Data ◽  
Targeted Marketing ◽  
Dramatic Shift ◽  
Lock In

The general data protection regulation (GDPR) represents a dramatic shift in global privacy regulation. We focus on GDPR’s enhanced consumer consent requirements that aim to provide transparent and active elicitation of data allowances. We evaluate the effect of enhanced consent on consumer opt-in behavior and on firm behavior and outcomes after consent is solicited. Utilizing an experiment at a large telecommunications provider with operations in Europe, we find that opt-in for different data types and uses increased once GDPR-compliant consent was elicited. However, consumers did not uniformly increase data allowances and continued to generally restrict permissions for more sensitive or tangential uses of their personal information. We also find that sales, the efficacy of marketing communications, and contractual lock-in increased after consumers provided new data allowances. Additional analysis suggests that these gains to the firm emerged because new data allowances enabled them to increase their use of targeted marketing for households that were amenable to these marketing efforts. These results have significant implications for firms and policymakers and suggest that enhanced consent provided via GDPR may be effective for increasing consumer privacy protection while also allowing firms reliant on consumers’ personal information to improve outcomes. This paper was accepted by Chris Forman, information systems.

scholarly journals The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Privacy Regulation ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
Data Protection Directive ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Recent Reform ◽  
General Data ◽  
The Eu

This new book provides an article-by-article commentary on the new EU General Data Protection Regulation. Adopted in April 2016 and applicable from May 2018, the GDPR is the centrepiece of the recent reform of the EU regulatory framework for protection of personal data. It replaces the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and has become the most significant piece of data protection legislation anywhere in the world. This book is edited by three leading authorities and written by a team of expert specialists in the field from around the EU and representing different sectors (including academia, the EU institutions, data protection authorities, and the private sector), thus providing a pan-European analysis of the GDPR. It examines each article of the GDPR in sequential order and explains how its provisions work, thus allowing the reader to easily and quickly elucidate the meaning of individual articles. An introductory chapter provides an overview of the background to the GDPR and its place in the greater structure of EU law and human rights law. Account is also taken of closely linked legal instruments, such as the Directive on Data Protection and Law Enforcement that was adopted concurrently with the GDPR, and of the ongoing work on the proposed new E-Privacy Regulation.

Tracking and Tracing Applications of 3G for SMEs

2011 ◽  
pp. 130-155
Author(s):  
Bardo Fraunholz ◽  
Chandana Unnithan ◽  
Jürgen Jung
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Mobile Network ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
Dynamic Growth ◽  
Mobile Network Operators ◽  
Review Current

With dynamic growth and acceptance of mobile devices, many innovative business applications are beginning to emerge. Tracking and tracing seems to be one of the popular applications which many organisations have initiated, often facilitated by location based services provided by mobile network operators. However, there are many issues associated with the provisioning of this application with current technologies and business models. Small and Medium-size Enterprises (SMEs) that make up a significant segment of businesses worldwide do not yet seem able to benefit widely from these services. In this chapter, we initially review current technologies/ applications and the issues associated with them, drawing from research and the experiences of a long term ongoing action research project with SMEs in the trade sector. Subsequently, we explore the opportunities offered by 3G services/business applications to SMEs, and provide a broad critical outlook on future opportunities for SMEs to benefit from 3G services.

scholarly journals Apply or not to apply?

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-94
Author(s):  
Matúš Mesarčík
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Privacy Regulation ◽  
New Era ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
Consumer Privacy ◽  
Privacy Act ◽  
General Data ◽  
The Eu

A new era of data protection laws arises after the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union. One of the newly adopted regulations of processing of personal data is Californian Consumer Privacy Act commonly referred to as CCPA. The article aims to fill the gap considering a deep analysis of the territorial scope of both acts and practical consequences of the application. The article starts with a brief overview of privacy regulation in the EU and USA. Introduction to GDPR and CCPA follows focusing on the territorial scope of respective legislation. Three scenarios of applicability are derived in the following part including practical examples.

scholarly journals The exercisability of the right to data portability in the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482093403
Author(s):  
Sarah Turner ◽  
July Galindo Quintero ◽  
Simon Turner ◽  
Jessica Lis ◽  
Leonie Maria Tanczer
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
General Data ◽  
Data Portability ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
The Right ◽  
Data Subject

The right to data portability (RtDP), as outlined in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), enables data subjects to transmit their data from one service to another. This is of particular interest in the evolving Internet of Things (IoT) environment. This research delivers the first empirical analysis detailing the exercisability of the RtDP in the context of consumer IoT devices and the information provided to users about exercising the right. In Study 1, we reviewed 160 privacy policies of IoT producers to understand the level of information provided to a data subject. In Study 2, we tested four widely available IoT systems to examine whether procedures are in place to enable users to exercise the RtDP. Both studies showcase how the RtDP is not yet exercisable in the IoT environment, risking consumers being unable to unlock the long-term benefits of IoT systems.

scholarly journals Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Santa Slokenberga ◽  
Olga Tzortzatou ◽  
Jane Reichel
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
General Data ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractThe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is already four years old legal instrument, with over two years of practical experience, yet, several central questions on its application, its importance in scientific research, rights of the data subjects, and obligations on the controllers and processors remain uncharted. In this edited volume, questions ranging from the meaning of the GDPR provisions for a particular research project to impact of the GDPR on long term collaborations, when the UK is leaving the EU are is discussed. This chapter sets out the aim of this book and provides an overview of how various contributions interplay to shed light on how the GDPR shapes the research regimes on the use of personal data in biobanking by EU Member States.

The effects of voluntary GDPR adoption and the readability of privacy statements on customers’ information disclosure intention and trust

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yibo Zhang ◽  
Tawei Wang ◽  
Carol Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Privacy Regulation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
General Data ◽  
Voluntary Adoption ◽  
Privacy Statements

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of companies’ voluntary adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well as the readability of privacy statements on US customers’ intention to disclose information and their trust in a company. Design/methodology/approach Building on the construal level theory and psychological distance, the authors conduct a 2 × 2 + 2 between-participants experiment with 255 participants. Findings The findings show that a company’s voluntary adoption of the GDPR has positive effects on customers’ intention to disclose information to and their trust in that company. In addition, the effects of GDPR adoption are stronger when the adopting company’s privacy statements possess a higher level of readability. Originality/value The authors believe this study poses policy implications for the outcomes of GDPR adoption and the recent debate on both a stricter data breach and privacy regulation.

scholarly journals The destruction of the ‘Windrush’ disembarkation cards: a lost opportunity and the (re)emergence of Data Protection regulation as a threat to longitudinal research

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Andy Boyd ◽  
Matthew Woollard ◽  
John Macleod ◽  
Alison Park
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
General Data ◽  
New Research

Historical records and the research databases of completed studies have the potential either to establish new research studies or to inform follow-up studies assessing long-term health and social outcomes. Yet, such records are at risk of destruction resulting from misconceptions about data protection legislation and research ethics. The recent destruction of the Windrush disembarkation cards, which potentially could have formed the basis of a retrospective cohort study, illustrates this risk. As organisations across Europe transition to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), this risk is being amplified due to uncertainty as to how to comply with complex new rules, and the requirement under GDPR that data owners catalogue their data and set data retention and destruction rules. The combination of these factors suggests there is a new meaningful risk that scientifically important historical records will be destroyed, despite the fact that GDPR provides a clear legal basis to hold historical records and to repurpose them for research for the public good. This letter describes this risk; details the legal basis enabling the retention and repurposing of these data; makes recommendations as to how to alleviate this risk; and finally encourages the research and research-active clinical community to contact their ‘Data Protection Officers’ to promote safe-keeping of historical records.

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